“Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.”
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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.